_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Hahahah. I can sense Morbs not knowing who to back there.

Cameron: I'd like to answer his question for him.

responses very much in character

hahaha

tbh i find reitman more annoying than cameron

sky captain is in my netflix queue at like 179.

No, bump it up, it's a trip. If only to hear Angelina Jolie wearing an eyepatch say "Alert the amphibious squadron!"

yeah skipped over the multi-paragraph conversation the two of them had about "instinct" thx guys

xp

rather have digital smurfs rape my retina than sit through juno again that's for sure

also lol @ tarantino having like perfect memory of the abyss

knowing the exact differences btw the LASERDISC and the THEATRICAL versions of the abyss

what a NERD

tbh i find reitman more annoying than cameron

Everything Reitman said made me me want him to stfu, way more annoying than Cameron.

yeah really

watching that vid i thought tarantino was going to accidentally nail bigelow in the face with one of his cocaine hand shapes

also as far as a purely visual experience the imax theater at the boston museum of science had a trailer that theyd show before every movie when i was a kid that had a helicopter shot flying over the city that was always so much better than anything in whatever animal/space doc they were screening - you were flying over beacon hill and then the camera tilts forward and u feel like youre gonna fall out yr seat - amazing

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:11 PM

the imax @ dc air and space museum has a movie thats pretty much that all the way through. saw it so many times

http://www.nasm.si.edu/visit/theaters/shows.cfm#tofly

Watch the Earth drop away beneath you on an 1800s balloon ascent; rocket across the Arizona skies with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels; soar on a hang glider off the coast of Hawaii; and blast off into space on a Saturn rocket.

haven't seen the vid but the interview reads like Reitman is young and intimidated. Almost as though he's the youngest dude in the room.

reitman is a fucking terrible douche and tarantino as gasbag hasbeen.

cameron is a funny guy tho, even though he hasn't done a decent movie in twenty years. i sort of warm to anyone who wears a HMFIC baseball cap.

whatevs i heard him on the radio last week and was like stfu stfu
made me not want to see 'up in the air', though people seem to like it... that said, to quote cameron:
"I'd just as soon not meet people and talk about the movie. And I don't mean that in some disdainful way, it's just the movie should be the movie."

that was an xpost, my 'whatevs'

also as far as a purely visual experience the imax theater at the boston museum of science had a trailer that theyd show before every movie when i was a kid that had a helicopter shot flying over the city that was always so much better than anything in whatever animal/space doc they were screening - you were flying over beacon hill and then the camera tilts forward and u feel like youre gonna fall out yr seat - amazing

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:11 PM

the imax @ dc air and space museum has a movie thats pretty much that all the way through. saw it so many times

http://www.nasm.si.edu/visit/theaters/shows.cfm#tofly

Watch the Earth drop away beneath you on an 1800s balloon ascent; rocket across the Arizona skies with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels; soar on a hang glider off the coast of Hawaii; and blast off into space on a Saturn rocket.

― shartin jort (am0n), Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:38 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

WANT

love that 100+ years later, the state of the art is still just a variation on the U R THERE thrills of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY

Hahaha I mentioned that movie when I was explaining Avatar to my Dad tonight

EVRBODY RUN THE FKIN TRAINS COMIN OUTTTA THE SCSREEEEEN!!!!!

I didn't see the setup for this when I saw it on TV, and as I result I TRIPPED BALLS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TchPvBBSLKM

lol u thought terry was up in avatar

the imax @ dc air and space museum has a movie thats pretty much that all the way through. saw it so many times

me too! only lived in DC for abt 4 years as a kid, but i saw "to fly" as many times as i possibly could over that period. remember getting a weird intimation of age the first time my stomach didn't flip on the big drops.

Philly IMAX had a scene where you bungee jumped off a skyscraper; was awesome

speaking of pretty films with shitty stories, is this better looking than that final fantasy movie? cause that's kinda like my baseline reference point for what I will tolerate to see some awesome cgi boobs

A-MAZING!

lindy west @ the stranger, who's an dependably bullshit-free appreciator of cheap pop trash, loved the blue furry dogshit out it. which may or may not be worth a ten-penny damn, but i'm encouraged.

My boy went straight to bed when he got home last night but he said it was the greatest film ever on the way thru. This applies to 12 year-old boys only, obv.

James who? You remember -- unassuming chap, made a modest flick about the Titanic 12 years ago. His new movie, Avatar, is a computer-generated 3-D science-fiction eco-tract which arrives with marginally more fanfare than Christmas. It's also the first veiled critique of the West's foreign policy to cost almost as much as the US defence budget. (Plus you get Leona Lewis singing over the end credits. At least I think she was singing. The possibility remains that she caught her foot in the car door and the composer James Horner merely set her distress to music.)

It's also the first veiled critique of the West's foreign policy to cost almost as much as the US defence budget.

Ha! But to tell you the truth, after months of hating I'm actually looking forward to this. I can't remember the last "event" movie that felt like an actual event. I suppose "Lord of the Rings?"

W this amt of controlled publicity Waterworld would've worked. Dunno if that's good or bad, tho.

Fern Gully meets Warhammer 40k.

but was it any good?

Watchmen seemed like the last big film with a ton of publicity that made up for the fact that noone knew the comic, the actors and it was a 3 hour long piece of bullshit... oh.

Doesn't matter anymore man, it's Chinatown

daaaaaaaaaaamn@this movie

WHY ARE SMART PEOPLE GOING TO IT

to piss you off

the tech is phenomenal; this is the first 3D movie I've seen so I dunno if this is new stuff or what but it's pretty mindblowingly good

it is a bit tiring tho and hard to focus in places but worth it

big female ferngully had some natty oakleys for rollin' in her banshee

avatar is real y'all - http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1947868,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Imagine how much money it cost Cameron to create a well-timed promotional planet.

ayo my review is up so

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/121709/film2.html

IOW looked pretty cool but i hated the blue dudes and its way too long imo

and some of the eco-fantasy "the planet is a giant wikipedia page" shit is unbearable. there's a scene where they like hook into the master gaia forest computer and you can hear like soft echoes of children laughing and shit

I love this line:

The Na’Vi are remarkably lifelike, but to me that doesn’t change the fact that they look like big, blue dorks.

i can't say i hated it, but i was rollin my damn eyes at a lot of it and the rapturous praise it's getting from all quarters is kinda baffling to me